Dictionary: PAD – PADZ

• PAD
n. 1. a toad ….1154 obs.
n. 2. a bundle of straw or the like to lie on …1554 obs.
n. 3. a path, track; the road, the way …1567 orig. sl., now also Eng. dial.
n. 4. a shortened form of ‘padlock’ …1573 obs.
n. 5. a starfish …1613
n. 6. a road-horse, an easy-paced horse …1617
n. 7. highway robbery …1662 criminals’ sl.
n. 8. a highway robber; a highwayman …1666 criminals’ sl. obs.
n. 9. a villain’s female companion …M17 sl.
n. 10. a prostitute …L17 sl.
n. 11. a bed …1718 UK sl.
n. 12. a soft, stuffed saddle …1777 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 13. the foot of an animal, esp. a fox’s foot …1790 Eng. dial.
n. 14. an Irishman …L18 sl.
n. 15. a street robber …1818 criminals’ sl.
n. 16. a written label or placard worn by a beggar that does not speak …1842 criminals’ sl.
n. 17. a small pack or bundle …1846 Eng. dial.
n. 18. a tramp (person) …1859 criminals’ sl.
n. 19. a walk …1889 police sl.
n. 20. dried cow-dung, formerly collected for fuel …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 21. a place, house, or apartment; a room, esp. a bedroom …1938 sl.
n. 22. a prison cell …1943 US criminals’ sl.
n. 23. a padded cell …1940s sl.
n. 24. a nickname or intimate form of address for an Irishman …1940s sl.
n. 25. an establishment that pays bribes to the local police …1940s US criminals’ sl.
n. 26. the regular bribes paid to members of a US police department …1940s US criminals’ sl.
vb. 1. to rob on the highway; to be a footpad …1638 obs.
vb. 2. to travel as tramp, thief, vagrant, or prostitute …E17 sl.
vb. 3. to walk; to wander …M17 sl.
vb. 4. of a horse: to pace …1724 obs.
vb. 5. to travel on foot, to trot along steadily and purposefully …1788 Sc.
vb. 6. to make a path by walking on a previously untracked path; to tread down under foot; to press down firmly and closely …1789  Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 7. to track by the pad or footmarks …1861
vb. 8. to pass information ‘on the quiet’, to drop a hint in one’s ear, to inform, to tell …1898 Sc.
vb. 9. to tread with a soft dull sound, as a person does in slippers or stockings …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 10. to live somewhere; to spend the night somewhere …1950s African-American sl.
vb. 11. to reside …1963 US sl.
vb. 12. to coat with breadcrumbs or batter before frying …1968 Amer. dial.
vb. 13. of police: to add to the narcotics confiscated from a suspect in order to render the charge against them more serious …1972 US sl.

• PAD A BILL
vb. to fraudulently add items to a bill or to an expense account statement in order to obtain money that one is not actually owed …1930s sl.

• PAD-BORROWER
n. a horse thief …1785 UK sl.

• PAD-CLINKING
n. 1. hobnobbing with footpads …1865 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 2. admission charge to an opium den …c1920 US sl.

• PADDA
n. a frog …1796 Sc.

• PADDA-RED
n. green slime formed on stagnant pools in warm weather …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PADDED
adj. 1. trampled, oft-trodden …1789 Sc.
adj. 2. having concealed contraband (stolen articles, drugs, etc.) on one’s person in order to remove it from a shop or deceive customs, etc. …1914 US criminals’ sl.

• PADDEN-CRIB
n. a boys’ or youths’ lodging-house …1839 UK sl.

• PADDEN KEN
n. a lodging house frequented primarily by vagrants or thieves …M19 Aust. & UK criminals’ sl.

• PADDER
n. a footpad, a highwayman, a robber …1610 UK criminals’ sl. obs.
vb. to tread; to trample down …1789 Sc.

• PADDERED
adj. trampled, oft-trodden …1789 Sc.

• PADDERS
n. 1. the feet …19C sl.
n. 2. boots or shoes …1828 UK sl. obs.

• PADDERT
adj. well-trodden, beaten down …1789 Sc. obs.

• PADDIES
n. the buttocks …1970s US homosexual sl.

• PADDING
adj. 1. practicing highway robbery …1672 obs.
adj. 2. travelling on foot …1844 Eng. dial.
n. 1. confidence trickery; swindling …L17 sl.
n. 2. working as a highway robber …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 3 highway robbery …M17 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 4. the practice of planting extra amounts of drugs to ensure a conviction …2000s UK police usage

• PADDING-CRIB
n. a lodging-house for vagabonds, tramps, vagrants …1851 sl.

• PADDING KEN
n. a low, cheap, lodging-house …1839 criminals’ sl.

• PADDINGTON BEAR
n. a pear …1970s Brit. rhyming sl.

• PADDINGTON FAIR (DAY)
n. the hanging day, the day of execution …1698 UK criminals’ sl. obs.

• PADDINGTON SPECTACLES
n. the hood that is pulled over the condemned man’s head before the hanging …E19 criminals’ sl.

• PADDISH
vb. to coax …1891 Eng. dial.

• PADDIST
n. a padder; a professional highwayman …1671 Sc. obs.

• PADDLE
n. 1. a little leather bag …a1568 Sc.
n. 2. fuss, ado …1642 obs. rare
n. 3. a foot …M19 sl.
n. 4. the fingers …M19 sl.
n. 5. the hand …M19 sl.
n. 6. a strap for punishment …1904 US prison sl.
n. 7. a pasture …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 8. the act of wading with short steps in water or mud; the act of walking with short, quick steps …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 9. on the railways: a semaphore signal …1977 US sl.
vb. 1. to caress sexually; to fondle a woman sexually …16C colloq.
vb. 2. to play or dabble idly or fondly with the fingers; to toy …1602
vb. 3. to finger idly, playfully, or fondly …1611 obs.
vb. 4. to waste, to squander …1616 obs.
vb. 5. to trifle; to deal in a petty trifling way …a1620 obs.
vb. 6. to make too free with liquor; to drink heavily …1746 Eng. dial.
vb. 7. to walk with short, unsteady, or uncertain steps, like those of a child; to toddle …1792
vb. 8. to trample down by treading over; to mark with wet or muddy feet …1795 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 9. to lead or support a child learning to walk …1828 Eng. dial.
vb. 10. to spank; to smack …1856 US
vb. 11. to run away, to leave …M19 sl.
vb. 12. to give a severe flogging with a belt …1899 US prison sl.
vb. 13. in horseracing: to try hard without success …1989 Aust. sl.

• PADDLE BULL
n. a young male moose, whose unbranched antlers look like table tennis bats …1989 Can. sl.

• PADDLED
adj. trampled …1805 Eng. dial.

• PADDLE FACE
n. a person of South-East Asian extraction …20C Aust. sl., racist

• PADDLEFOOT
n. 1. an infantry soldier …1946 US sl.
n. 2. an air force ground-crew member …1948 US sl.
n. 3. a foot, esp. a large one …1966 Amer. dial.
n. 4. a cottontail rabbit …1969 Amer. dial.

• PADDLE ONE’S OWN CANOE
vb. to act independently or make one’s way by one’s own unaided efforts …1828 sl.

• PADDLE ONE’S PICKLE
vb. of men: to masturbate …20C colloq.

• PADDLE-PAW
n. the paw of an animal …1897 Eng. dial.

• PADDLE POP
n. a block of ice …1998 NZ rhyming sl.

• PADDLER
n. 1. a wild duck …1882
n. 2. a paddleboat …L19 sl.
n. 3. a child just beginning to walk …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 4. a small person walking with short, uncertain steps …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 5. a policeman …1940s Aust. sl.

• PADDLERS
n. 1. the feet …1845 UK sl.
n. 2. children’s footwear for the beach, protection from sharp stones and crabs …20C Brit. sl.

• PADDLES
n. marks, footprints …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PADDLE THE PICKLE
vb. of a male: to masturbate …1967 US sl.

• PADDLE THE PINK CANOE
vb. of a female: to masturbate …2004 UK sl.

• PADDLE TO WHIP YOU
phr. said to a child when he asks “What are you making?” …1965 Amer. dial.

• PADDLEWHEEL
n. a foot, esp. a large one …1966 Amer. dial.

• PADDLING
adj. 1. walking; wandering aimlessly …1828 Sc.
adj. 2. trifling, petty; useless …Bk1905 Sc.

• PADDLING-COLLIE
n. a wandering dog …Bk1905 N. Ireland

• PADDLING-WALK
n. a gait in which the steps are made very short …Bk1905 N. Ireland

• PADDLY
adj. tottering, uncertain in gait …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PADDO
n. 1. a frog …1796 Sc.
n. 2. the suburb of Paddington, Sydney …1940s Aust. sl.

• PADDOCK
n. 1. a toad …c1300 obs. exc. a literary archaism
n. 2. a frog …c1350 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. & Amer. dial.
n. 3. a person, in contempt …a1450
n. 4. a small farm …1824 Sc.
n. 5. a sporting field; a playing field, esp. for cricket …1839 Aust. sl.
n. 6. a fungus; a toadstool …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 7. a playing field for rugby …1947 NZ sl.

• PADDOCK-BASHER
n. a worn-out old vehicle used to drive around a country property; an off-road vehicle  …1983 Aust. sl.

• PADDOCK-DABBER
n. one who strikes or kills frogs …1894 Sc.

• PADDOCK-HAIR
n. the soft down or hair on unfledged birds and on new-born babies …1827 chiefly Eng. dial.

• PADDOCK-POOL
n. a stagnant pool …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PADDOCK-STOOL
n. 1. a toadstool …c1450 chiefly Eng. dial.
n. 2. a term of reproach …Bk1905 Sc.

• PADDOCKY
adj. abounding in frogs …1828

• PAD DOUGH
n. money for a night’s lodging or for admission to an opium den …1900s US sl.

• PADDOW
n. a frog, a toad …c1375 Sc.

• PAD DOWN
vb. 1. to live somewhere; to spend the night somewhere …1950s African-American sl.
vb. 2. to go to sleep …1993 US sl.

• PADDY
adj. 1. Irish …20C sl.
adj. 2. White …1940s African-American sl.
n. 1. an Irishman; often used as a nickname or intimate form of address …1780 often derogatory
n. 2. a frog …1796 Sc.
n. 3. a pig, esp. a young one …1845 Sc.
n. 4. a menial or manual labourer; a bricklayer’s or builder’s labourer …1856
n. 5. a long, tedious rigmarole; a ‘cock-and-bull’ story …1865 Eng. dial.
n. 6. an almanac …1889 Eng. dial.
n. 7. a hobby, a fad, a pastime …L19 sl.
n. 8. a temper; a rage; a tantrum; a fit of sulking…1894 UK
n. 9. a Chinese person …1900s Aust. sl.
n. 10. a padlock …1904 US sl.
n. 11. a bull …1939 Amer. dial.
n. 12. a padded cell for mentally disturbed prisoners …1940s UK prison sl.
n. 13. a White person, though not always Irish …1945 African-American sl.
n. 14. a police officer …1946 US sl.
n. 15. a lazy or worthless person …M20 US sl.
n. 16. a Roman Catholic …1966 Amer. dial.
n. 17. a tramp …1967 Amer. dial.
n. 18. a bricklayer …1970s US sl.
n. 19. Irish whisky …1970s Irish sl.
vb. to perform menial labour …1876 Amer. dial.

• PADDY AND MICK
adj. stupid …20C UK rhyming sl. for ‘thick’
n. a pickaxe…1998 UK rhyming sl.

• PADDY-BARROW
n. a wheelbarrow …1911 Amer. dial.

• PADDY-BASHING
n. beating up Irish people, usually used of soldiers in Northern Ireland …2000s sl.

• PADDYBASS
vb. to walk back and forth …1993 Amer. dial.

• PADDY BOY
n. a White person, though not always Irish …1940s African-American sl.

• PADDY-CAKE
n. a pancake or similar quick bread …1966 Amer. dial.

• PADDY COW
n. a bull …1968 Amer. dial.

• PADDY DOYLE
n. imprisonment; a prison sentence …1919 Brit. services’ sl.

• PADDY DREEL
n. a humorous term given to the act of taking a person by the ear (such as a child from his seat to the front of the schoolroom) and marching him along against his inclination …1958 Sc.

• PADDY FEVER
n. the desire for sex with White men or women …1960s African-American sl.

• PADDY FROG
n. a bullfrog …1986 Amer. dial.

• PADDY FUNERAL
n. any boisterous occasion, not necessarily a wake …20C sl.

• PADDY GIRL
n. a White person, though not always Irish …1940s African-American sl.

• PADDY HUSTLER
n. a criminal who targets White people as victims …1970 US sl.

• PADDYISM
n. an Irish peculiarity, an Irishism …1801

• PADDYLAND
n. Ireland …19C sl.

• PADDYLANDER
n. an Irishman …c1820 sl.

• PADDY MCGUIGAN
n. dancing, jigging …1996 Sc. rhyming sl. for ‘jiggin’

• PADDY MCGUIRE
n. a fire …1988 Sc. rhyming sl.

• PADDY-NODDY
n. 1. a long, tedious tale; a roundabout story; silly matter for gossip …1865 Eng. dial.
n. 2. perplexity, embarrassment; a state of agitation, uneasiness, and trouble …B1900 Eng. dial.

• PADDY O’ROURKE
n. talk, conversation …1990s rhyming sl.
vb. to talk …1998 UK rhyming sl.

• PADDY PRINTS
n. fingerprints …1930 US criminals’ sl.

• PADDY QUICK
adj. stupid …M19 rhyming sl. for ‘thick’
n. 1. a stick …M19 rhyming sl.
n. 2. a kick …1960s rhyming sl
.
• PADDY RAMMER
n. a hammer …Brit. rhyming sl.

• PADDY-ROW
n. a fight that entails more verbal than physical aggression …E19 sl.

• PADDY’S APPLE
n. the potato …1922 NZ sl.

• PADDY’S CAR
n. a wheelbarrow …1973 Amer. dial.

• PADDY’S COACH
n. a wheelbarrow …1939 Amer. dial.

• PADDY’S DAY
n. St. Patrick Day …2003 Ireland

• PADDY’S EYEWATER
n. illicitly distilled whisky, poteen …L19 Irish sl.

• PADDY’S FUNERAL
n. any boisterous occasion, not necessarily a wake …20C sl.

• PADDY’S HURRICANE
n. a calm, esp. among sailors …1821 Amer. nautical usage

• PADDY’S ISLE
n. Ireland …19C sl.

• PADDY’S LAND
n. Ireland …19C sl.

• PADDY’S LANTERN
n. the moon …1933 NZ jocular usage

• PADDY’S MARKET
n. any kind of cheap market …L19 Aust. sl.

• PADDY’S PIG
n. the epitome of ignorance …1974 NZ sl.

• PADDY’S POKE
n. a cut made to a deck of cards by pushing out the middle section with a finger and placing those cards on top …20C Aust. sl.

• PADDY’S TAXI
n. a police “Panda” car (black and white police patrol car) …1969 UK sl.

• PADDY’S TOOTHACHE
n. pregnancy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PADDY STRENGTH
n. in the Vietnam War: the combat strength of a unit, measured by the actual number of troops in the field …1974 US sl.

• PADDY’S WATCH
n. an unlicensed almanac …L19 sl.

• PADDY’S WIGWAM
n. the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral in Liverpool …2003 UK sl.

• PADDYWACK
n. 1. an Irishman …1871 Amer. sl.
n. 2. a bad temper or fit of sulking …1899 sl.

• PADDY WAGON
n. 1. a police van or car; the vehicle in which arrested people are transported to the local police station or prison …1909 US sl.
n. 2. a wheelbarrow …1968 Amer. dial.

• PADDY WARD’S PIG
n. a lazy person; one who is relaxing …M18 sl.

• PADDYWATCH
n. an almanac …1889 Eng. dial.

• PADDY WATER
n. Guinness™ Irish stout …2000 UK sl.

• PADDYWAX
n. a severe beating …1910s sl.

• PADDY WESTER
n. an inefficient or novice seaman …1927 Brit. sl.

• PADDYWHACK
n. 1. an Irishman, esp. when large and brawny …1811 colloq.
n. 2. a severe beating; a smacking, usually of a child; a blow …1898 sl.
n. 3. a rage, a passion, a temper; a fit of sulking …1899
n. 4. an unlicensed almanac …L19 sl.
n. 5. stage or ‘professional’ Irishism, as much usage of ‘Sure an’ begorrah, sorr…’ etc. …L19 Irish sl.
n. 6. the hand, esp. of a baby; chiefly used by little children …1916 Amer. dial.
vb. to beat severely …L19 sl.

• PADDYWHACK ALMANAC
n. an unlicensed almanac …L19 sl.

• PADDYWHACKER
n. an Irishman …1909 Amer. sl.

• PADDY-WHACK-SAUCE
n. a severe beating or thrashing …1889 Eng. dial.

• PADDYWOOD
n. a White person …1980s African-American sl., derogatory

• PADEL
n. a dish; a pan …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PAD-FOOT
n. a footpad, a highwayman …1847 Eng. dial.

• PAD-GATE
n. a footpath; a trodden way …1889 Eng. dial.

• PADGE
n. any large butterfly or moth, the colours of which are variegated with white and not brilliant …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PADGEL
vb. 1. to mend, to patch …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to trifle, to dally …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PADGELLING
adj. trifling, petty …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PADGETTY-POW
n. 1. a lizard; an eft …1846 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a tadpole; a frog …1873 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a term of contempt for a person …1873 Eng. dial.

• PADGETYPOO
n. 1. a lizard; an eft …1846 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a frog, a tadpole …1879 Eng. dial.

• PADGEY-POW
n. a lizard; an eft …1846 Eng. dial.

• PADHOUSE
n. one’s house; one’s home …1930s African-American sl.

• PADIDDLE
n. 1. a car with only one working headlight;  …1959 Amer. dial.
n. 2. the name of a nighttime travel game involving vehicles with only one working headlight; the objective is to be the first to spot a qualifying vehicle; the spotter must say “Padiddle” to earn a sighting; n some groups, the spotter must simultaneously hit the ceiling of the car, and in others, punch or kiss another passenger; the person with the highest score at the end of the trip is the winner …1959 Amer. dial.

• PADINODDY
n. a long, tedious rigmarole; a ‘cock-and-bull’ story …1865 Eng. dial.

• A PAD IN THE STRAW
n. something amiss; a danger concealed; something wrong …1530 obs.

• PAD IT
vb. 1. to travel on foot; to walk; to tramp or trudge along, esp. as a vagrant or person seeking work …1610
vb. 2. to wander …M17 sl.

• PADJELL
n. a veteran pedestrian who has often been victorious in foot-races …1824 Sc. obs.

• PADLE
n. a field or garden hoe …a1568 Sc.
vb. to hoe, to loosen the ground …1825 Sc.

• PADLOCK
n. the penis …1960s UK rhyming sl. for ‘cock’

• PAD-MARK
n. a footprint, the mark of a fox …1900 Eng. dial.

• PAD MATE
n. in prison: the inmate with whom a cell is shared …1996 UK sl.

• PAD MONEY
n. money for a night’s lodging or for admission to an opium den …1904 US sl.

• PAD MONSTER
n. sleepiness, the result either of boredom or exhaustion …1960s sl.

• PAD-NAG
n. an ambling nag; an easygoing pad-horse …1654

• PAD OF COLD CREAM
n. an ice-cream parlour …1940s African-American & Southern sl.

• PAD OF DRY SCARFS
n. a grocery store …1940s African-American & Southern sl.

• PAD OF GALLOPING SNAPSHOTS
n. a cinema …1940s African-American & Southern sl.

• PAD OF STIFFS
n. a funeral parlour …1940s African-American sl.

• PAD OF STITCHES
n. a hospital …1940s African-American sl.

• PAD OF TOGS-IN-(THE)-ROUGH
n. a tailor’s shop …1940s African-American & Southern sl.

• PAD OF WET SCARF(S)
n. a restaurant …1940s African-American & Southern sl.

• PAD ON
vb. to move around busying oneself at a task …1925 Sc.

• PAD ONE’S LIMBER
vb. to hurry; to proceed …1851 US sl.

• PAD ONE’S SKULL
vb. to pass on information …1950s African-American sl.

• PADOODLE
n. a car with only one working headlight …1959 Amer. dial.

• PAD OUT
vb. to live somewhere; to spend the night somewhere …1950s African-American sl.

• PA-DOW!
int. an exclamation of approval, pleasure …2000s African-American sl.

• PAD-PRIGGER
n. a horse thief …1848 UK criminals’ sl.

• PADRE
n. a chaplain; a priest or clergyman …1898 sl., orig. services’ sl.

• PAD-ROAD
n. a footpath; a trodden way …1888 Eng. dial.

• PAD ROLL
n. a controlled roll of the dice by a skilled cheat, best made on a blanket spread on the ground …1950 US sl.

• PADRONE
n. a boss, esp. in a gangster-related context …2000 Italy sl.

• PADS
n. 1. car license plates …1930s US sl.
n. 2. a padded cell …1940s UK prison sl.
n. 3. tires …2003 US bikers’ (motorcycle) usage

• PAD-SCENT
n. in foxhunting: the scent from a fox’s foot …1898 Eng. dial.

• PAD SHARK
n. a prisoner who steals from others’ cells …1996 UK sl.

• PAD-STOOL
n. a paddock-stool; a toadstool …c1450 obs.

• PAD THE HOOF
vb. 1. to walk, esp. to tramp …c1773 UK criminals’ sl.
vb. 2. of prostitutes: to walk the street …1859 US sl.
vb. 3. to leave in a hurry …M19 sl.

• PAD THE RING
vb. in horseracing: to place many small bets on several horses in a race while placing a large bet on one horse away from the track, hoping that the small bets on other horses will drive the odds on you horse up …1951 US sl.

• PAD THE ROAD
vb. to go on foot; to move or travel slowly …1813 Sc. & Eng. dial.

• PAD-TROD
n. a footpath; a trodden way …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PADUNGLE
n. a car with only one working headlight …1959 Amer. dial.

• PAD-WALK
n. a footpath; a trodden way …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PAD-WAY
n. a footpath; a trodden way …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PADY
n. a frog …1796 Sc.